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don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
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don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow is a personal blog at ariya.blogspot.com about programming and web. Since 2008, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Common characteristics of failed open-sourced projects”. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link the author's PhantomJS announcement and a post on solving a random-number interview puzzle from his Google interview. The comments only link or cite these posts and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Common characteristics of failed open-sourced projects2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-03-13
- Your webkit port is special (just like every other port)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-11
What Hacker News says?
Have you participated in any other open source projects? All of them with any success in the community (that I can think of) have a monarchy or oligarchy at the head. Anyone may contribute, and a group of committers review and add if the contribution fits the project... who determines what the project and its roadmap? Usually a select few, driven by even fewer or just one. So I don't think it's necessarily unusual t…
Comment linking /2008/03/common-characteristics-of-failed-open.html
on “Announcing Docker Machine, Swarm, and Compose for Orchestrating Distributed Apps”Submitted Common characteristics of failed open-sourced projects as a story · 4 points
HN discussionthe announcement blog post: http://ariya.blogspot.com/2011/01/phantomjs-minimalistic-hea...
Comment linking /2011/01/phantomjs-minimalistic-headless-webkit.html
on “PhantomJS is a minimalistic, headless, WebKit-based, JavaScript-driven tool”Submitted Your webkit port is special (just like every other port) as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> One thing to note is that when you think mobile, WebKit (Chrome, Safari, Android, iPhone) is already a dominant force. Warning: there is no webkit[0] especially not on mobile[1]. While not completely true, it's important to remember three things about webkit: 1. The core engine progresses fast, and actual browser implementations fork the core, two webkit browsers may have very different capabilities and bugs due t…
Comment linking /2011/06/your-webkit-port-is-special-just-like.html
on “ Google Chrome’s amazing growth spurt. The top web browser by June 2012?”Submitted The Story of Browser Names as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you want a spoiler: http://ariya.blogspot.com/2007/11/random-number-15-to-17.htm... He gives a few different ways to solve it, most with uniform distribution.
Comment linking /2007/11/random-number-15-to-17.html
on “My Job Interview at Google”